Trivia

Known as the 'Voice of Lebanon'.

He studied at the Beirut National Conservatory of Music. He composed and performed songs that drew upon his rural upbringing and love of traditional melodies, blended with an urban sound, and created a new style of modernized folk music.

He traveled to Brazil in 1947 until he remained there in 1950.

He began to be interested in music at age 17 when he auditioned for a Lebonese Radio Show.

He was a popular Lebanese singer and composer. He first gained fame in the late 1930s when he won a Lebanese singing contest. He contributed to the growing popularity and influence of Lebanese music across the Arab world.

With the beginning of the Lebanese civil war, Wadi emigrated from Lebanon as a way to protest on the war, and went first of all to England then settled in France in the year 1978.